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Memphis sanitation workers’ strike: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date 1968
Location Memphis • Tennessee • United States

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National Guard troops with rifles block Beale Street as civil rights marchers wearing signs reading I AM A MAN walk past during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike.
Large crowd marching in Memphis after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. In front, Harry Belafonte, King's sons Martin III and Dexter, Coretta Scott King, Jesse Jackson, Ralph Abernathy, and Andrew Young.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American civil rights activist and religious leader
James Lawson
James Lawson
American minister and civil rights activist